This week’s best:
{Coffee} Trader Joe’s cold brew with cookies and cream milk.
{Lunch} Leftover buffalo chicken pizza with roasted zucchini.
{Snack} Coca-Cola Tic-Tacs. How did they get the flavor so spot-on??!
{Dinner} Egg tacos. These are amazing; I’ve been eating them all week and I’m still not sick of them! Pan-warmed tortillas // sauteed corn and kale with paprika and TJ’s umami powder // soft-scrambled eggs with gouda // homemade salsa (I made a big batch loosely based on this recipe).
Real Stuff — This was a hard weekend in the United States. I don’t think my voice adds anything to the discussion but I do want to use my (small) platform share some posts with my white readers: A Guide to White Privilege // How to be Actively Anti-Racist // 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship.
Fluff — Some highlights from the past few days…
We took a social distancing walk across the Williamsburg Bridge to get take-out to eat in Thompkin’s Square Park and I must have said four-thousand times how much I love NYC.
Nowon was ridiculously fantastic. I had charred broccoli with sesame caesar, perilla, anchovy, parmesan, and seaweed and a double cheeseburger with american cheese and kimchi mayo.
Still loving making Phin coffee.
This new Chobani chocolate oat milk is insane. It tastes like chocolate marshmallows!
This yogurt bowl tasted like summer. Plain Greek, honey, cinnamon, and fresh mango.
Chicken and kimchi ramen with brown sugar milk tea with boba.
The best thing I ate all weekend = this taco. Stuffed with Kewpie, Crystal hot sauce, and soft-scrambled eggs with gouda.
Adam was home off of work all week (so much time together! swoon!) and I was off Monday for the holiday so we took a ten-mile social distance walk around Manhattan. We were able to do it safely and it was so indescribably nice to see the city again!
Highlights from the homefront include…
Breakfast for dessert! Sea salt caramel cold brew and a cookie dough Perfect Bar.
Dessert for dessert; this week’s baked good was peanut butter cookies with vanilla bean powder and malted milk.
I got take-out sushi for lunch on a work-from-home day which was fairly thrilling.
Caramelized onion spaghetti – whole wheat spaghetti tossed with tons of caramelized sweet onions and green onions with fish sauce, brown sugar, butter, and Korean chili powder. Topped with roasted zucchini, smoked rainbow trout, and pastrami-style smoked salmon.
Buffalo chicken baked pasta with spaghetti, ground chicken cooked with hot sauce and cream cheese, tons of spinach, and chedddar.
Three things from the weekend –
{1} Is it even a work-day (Friday) if I don’t eat a giant yogurt bowl?
This one had honey vanilla Greek yogurt, espresso vanilla granola, and fresh blueberries.
{2} We got our most exciting beer delivery from Evil Twin yet.
Sour ale brewed with milk sugar, caramelized barley, vanilla, dark cherry, and cola syrup // sour ale brewed with milk sugar, vanilla, and orange soda syrup // sour IPA brewed with raspberries.
{3} We got curbside take-out from Comfortland and it was everything I’ve ever dreamed of.
I got a biscuit sandwich with egg, cheddar, and turkey bacon. Plus a pineapple guava doughnut that knocked my socks off! And we had frozen painkillers and frozen New Orleans iced coffee with oat milk.
Highlights from this week include…
Dalgona coffee with cinnamon and malted milk. Swoon.
Honey vanilla Greek yogurt with blueberries and a raspberry banana nut mix.
Our current candy situation.
I am all in on this Trader Joe’s popcorn mix.
When we get Chinese take-out I ordered all of the things so I have leftovers for days. This was Kung Pow tofu, veggie rice noodles, and cabbage.
Chinese cabbage with TJ’s mini chicken wontons and chili flakes.
Jalopeno popper turkey chicken burgers with roasted green beans.
This weekend we: Ate all the take-out. Took the dog on several long walks. Washed the dog and turned him into an adorable woolly mammoth. Did our grocery shopping for the next two weeks.
I also went on a really great run and started re-watching America’s Next Top Model.
Highlights include…
Obsessed with these Trader Joe’s bbq popped chips. I prefer a smoky bbq flavor and this fits the bill.
Even more obsessed with this Evil Twin pink pineapple IPA. Served in a go-cup because we took a cocktail hour walk with Webster that knocked our socks off.
We got great take-out from a local Mediterranean spot. Tons of pita bread with all of the smokey eggplant dips. Plus bulgar with tzatziki and chicken (plus roasted broccoli).
And we ordered all of their desserts!
We also got great take-out from a local Szechuan spot. I had kung pow tofu with veggie rice noodles and Chinese cabbage with peppers.
Wow am I glad it’s the weekend! Even if I don’t get to leave the house it will be nice to get a quick break from my busy work-week. Actually though, we have our bi-weekly grocery trip planned for tomorrow – exciting stuff.
My dinners were largely (unphotographably) lame this week but I did have some really exciting beverages and yogurt bowls…
This week’s coffee included homemade malted milk creamer!
Plain skyr with maple, blueberries, and kiwi.
Plain skyr with apples cooked with cinnamon and brown sugar plus espresso vanilla granola.
Honey vanilla Greek yogurt with granola and plum.
I made an amazing batch of chocolate chip cookies with sprinkles, espresso powder, and malted milk powder.
We got a super exciting delivery from Evil Twin – a pink pineapple sour IPA and a chocolate egg cream hard seltzer!
Our nonalcoholic options were pretty fantastic too – Watermelon La Croix, LimonCello La Croix, and Starfruit Lemonade Polar Seltzer.
I really enjoyed this frozen enchilada.
Trader Joe’s mini chicken and cilantro wontons on a bed of peas, celery, and green onion, topped with chili oil.
Have a nice/safe weekend!
